Myers Briggs® Personality Types Model Helps To Make Your Career Decisions!

Myers Briggs® personality types model not only works out your behavioral preferences but also correlates them with different careers. Whether you are analyzing your career options or starting anew, there is no alternative for this psychological instrument. The sixteen personality types, their descriptions and association with different careers guide you to analyze:

1- Your choice of careers,

2- Your selected career vis-à-vis your personality type,

3- Précised method to avoid frustrating years in a wrong business, and

4- Your decision to change your current job for another.

Myers Briggs® Personality Types and Development of Personality Functions...

Personality types are often misunderstood. Some think that the test identifies those personality traits which are built-in and can neither be developed nor be changed. On the same fallacy some organizations have been using sixteen personality tests as sole selection criteria.

The professionally built Myers Briggs® personality test recognizes importance of education, working environment and cultural bounds that develop various personality traits. Even Carl Jung admits that extreme types can only be found in lunatic asylums.

W. Harold Grant mentions six phases of behavioral development of sixteen personality types. He says that human beings are born with certain identifiable built-in preferences. However, they grow these preferences and non-preferences, throughout their lives. His six phases are:

1. 0-6 years (No clear type yet)

2. 6-12 years (Development of dominant primary behaviors)

3. 12-20 years (Development of supporting auxiliary behaviors)

4. 20-35 years (Focusing upon both types of behaviors while starting with opposite functions.)

5. 35-50 years (Maximum development of all kinds of behaviors.)

6. From 50 onward (Strengthening of fully developed functions.)

Primary Dominant Behaviors

There are four dominant primary behaviors of Myers-Briggs® personality types model; extroversion vs. introversion and sensing vs. intuition. People start showing their extroversion or introversion from their early childhood. They refine their perception system a bit later.

Auxiliary Supporting Behaviors

These four behaviors; thinking vs. feeling and judging vs. feeling, are considered auxiliary for Myers-Briggs® personality types. Your systems to decide and organize the things support your primary behaviors.

Opposite Behaviors

‘Opposite behaviors’ do not mean other side of the midnight…

…they are simply those behaviors which you express under circumstances but don’t feel comfortable with. It is your self-control and learning capability that rub out that discomfort. Your working environment may catch your anger but you can develop a peaceful mind by enlarging your picture.

A balanced personality can never be an extreme type...

That’s why some psychologists prefer to express types not as ESTJ, INFJ and ISTP but as EiSnTfJp, IeNsFtJp and IeSnTfPj types. They theorize that small letters convey those behaviors which you are not comfortable with but you can express them too.

Classification of Sixteen Personality Types

Sensing Judging Personality Types

They include ISTJ, ISFJ, ESTJ and ESFJ personality types. In temperament types this group is called guardian or duty seeker. Click for Description and Associated Careers

Intuitive Thinking Personality Types

They include INTJ, INTP, ENTJ and ENTP personality types. In temperament types, they are considered analytical personality types. They are also called rational or knowledge seekers. Click for Description and Associated Careers

Intuitive Feeling Personality Types

They include INFJ, INFP, ENFJ and ENFP personality types. In temperament types, they are termed as idealists or ideal seekers. Click for Description and Associated Careers

Sensing Perceiving Personality Types

They include ISTP, ISFP, ESTP and ESFP personality types. In temperament types they are collectively called the artisan or action seekers. Click for Description and Associated Careers


The brief descriptions of personality types and associated careers are given in the light of Carl Jung's theory of types and the later developments. However, like any other psychological instrument, they are subject to error. There is no guarantee that any of the description or careers shall be suitable to your personality. It is advisable to take them an opening for your big picture.

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